LORETTA FRANCES FANNING

Monday

Jul 31, 2017 at 2:00 AM

June 18, 1937 - July 28, 2017

Cornwall, NY

Loretta Frances Fanning of Cornwall, NY, went to be with our Lord on Friday, July 28, 2017.

The daughter of the late John and Ella Schroff Kinsler, she was born on June 18, 1937 in Otisville, NY. Loretta graduated from Cornwall-on-Hudson High School, Westchester Community College and Hackensack Hospital School of Nursing. She completed her BSN from Dominican College. She practiced her nursing in Washington, DC, and the Cornwall Hospital, finally retiring after 30 years from Keller Army Hospital in West Point.

She was married to John Fanning in May of 1970 at St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, Cornwall-on-Hudson. She was a 60 year member of the Catholic Daughters of America, Court Rita #264, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and a communicant of St. Thomas of Canterbury Church.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, August 1st at James F. Lulves Funeral Home, 9 Avenue A, Cornwall-on-Hudson. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, August 2nd at St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, 340 Hudson St., Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. Interment will follow in St. Thomas Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in Loretta's memory be made to Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties, 800 Stony Brook Ct., Newburgh, NY 12550.

Arrangements are under the direction of James F. Lulves Funeral Home 534-2550; for directions or to send condolences, please visit www.lulvesfuneralhome.com

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